Syracuse City School District Smart Start Grant

The Syracuse City School District’s (SCSD) Smart Start Program is a large scale, innovative, professional development program designed to address the need to increase expertise in computer science and engineering among K-8 teachers, providing them with a combination of content knowledge and content-specific pedagogy. Over the course of five years, the Smart Start Program, using a hybrid cohort/train-the-trainer model, will train at least 500 SCSD K-8 instructional staff and administrators. Each intensive, research-based, one-year program cycle will incorporate a variety of professional learning structures, including but not limited to: online course modules, team learning, professional learning communities, and job-embedded coaching.

Contact: Manami Tezuka, Director of Professional Development, Smart Start Grant Program Lead

mtezuka@scsd.us